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Tre Clark leaves VCU basketball program due to university suspension

Matt Morton
Posted onFeb 4, 2021 at 3:44 PM
Updated onUpdated on Feb 4, 2021 at 10:55 AM

One of VCU’s most exciting up-and-comers, Tre Clark III, has officially left the VCU men’s basketball program. The only detail we have is a comment made by Mike Rhoades in his post-game presser, stating “a university suspension, I’m just going to leave it at that for now”:

VCU Athletics followed up this afternoon with a very minimal statement to media:

VCU ATHLETICS STATEMENT ON JIMMY “TRE” CLARK III:

Tre Clark is no longer a member of the men’s basketball program at VCU. We are not allowed to comment further on this matter.

 

Rumors circulated on the ram nation forums this afternoon after images were provided showing him in attendance in uniform at the game last night against Rhode Island, but he never checked in.

Tre Clark Forum Thread

His name has already been removed from the official VCU Athletics roster:

Tre was averaging 5.9 points per game for the Rams, and logged an incredible team-leading 6.2 steals percentage.

This post will updated as more information becomes available.

Matt Morton
Matt has been reporting on VCU sports for Ram Nation since 2007 with a focus on news, photos, and feature stories.
  • mglitos
  • February 5, 2021
DCDan 88 said
Now you better watch your comments. You have your own opinion that does not match what everyone else wants to hear on this site. You will quickly become the troll.
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Alllllllrighty then. I'd like to address a couple things here, if I may.

As to GTA's transfer position. There's more than 150 guys in the portal now and something like 80% of the programs had a transfer last year. With the waiver and the rules it's going to be nuts this offseason. But let's not pretend, because it fits your narrative, that it's a VCU thing. It's a college basketball thing and VCU is part of it. What's going here is going on in every program. So yes, there may indeed be transfers. Everybody is going to go through it so don't try to make the assertion that something is funky here. It isn't. Dudes may transfer for 15 different reasons because it happens and they are making individual decisions.

To blend to the DC Dan comments...curious as to why you didn't bring up Tyler Maye or PJ Byrd. Only contributing players matter in the equation? Here's the reality:

Doughty: you have no idea how well this was handled. Everybody, including Samir, came out better.
Mobley: recruited for a different style and lunatic parents who got him back to Florida. Individual decision, good or bad.
Silva: got what he wanted, and I don't know that I make a different decision, if I'm being honest. Individual decision.
Jenkins: do NOT effing go there. Has nothing to do with the coaching staff or culture. Don't speculate about poop you don't know.
Clark: nobody has any idea but you're nuts if you don't think he was a Rhoades player. Everybody is feeling the loss. But again, individual decisions were made.

My point: let's not treat these decisions as anything other than the way the college basketball world functions these days. There is nothing in the past four years that doesn't occur everywhere. I get pissed when things like this occur and people think VCU is immune to it so there's some bullpoop pall placed on VCU. Nope. We're part of the whole thing for better or for worse.
  • mglitos
  • February 5, 2021
mglitos said
Alllllllrighty then. I'd like to address a couple things here, if I may.

As to GTA's transfer position. There's more than 150 guys in the portal now and something like 80% of the programs had a transfer last year. With the waiver and the rules it's going to be nuts this offseason. But let's not pretend, because it fits your narrative, that it's a VCU thing. It's a college basketball thing and VCU is part of it. What's going here is going on in every program. So yes, there may indeed be transfers. Everybody is going to go through it so don't try to make the assertion that something is funky here. It isn't. Dudes may transfer for 15 different reasons because it happens and they are making individual decisions.

To blend to the DC Dan comments...curious as to why you didn't bring up Tyler Maye or PJ Byrd. Only contributing players matter in the equation? Here's the reality:

Doughty: you have no idea how well this was handled. Everybody, including Samir, came out better.
Mobley: recruited for a different style and lunatic parents who got him back to Florida. Individual decision, good or bad.
Silva: got what he wanted, and I don't know that I make a different decision, if I'm being honest. Individual decision.
Jenkins: do NOT effing go there. Has nothing to do with the coaching staff or culture. Don't speculate about poop you don't know.
Clark: nobody has any idea but you're nuts if you don't think he was a Rhoades player. Everybody is feeling the loss. But again, individual decisions were made.

My point: let's not treat these decisions as anything other than the way the college basketball world functions these days. There is nothing in the past four years that doesn't occur everywhere. I get pissed when things like this occur and people think VCU is immune to it so there's some bullpoop pall placed on VCU. Nope. We're part of the whole thing for better or for worse.
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Side note: there's a lot of space between everything sucks and everything's rosy. Stop making blanket statements.
  • BracketForecast
  • February 6, 2021
mglitos said
Side note: there's a lot of space between everything sucks and everything's rosy. Stop making blanket statements.
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Dad.